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Gavin Bryars
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"What Are You Doing In There?" The Rise and Fall of Bedroom Music
2010 was meant to be the year of the bedroom recording, thanks to the swelling of a genre that ...
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Reformation Culture In 2010: Why We Should Welcome Returning Heroes
So this is something which has been stewing on low heat for the best part of a decade now, but ...
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From Robyn To Janelle Monae: 2010 & The Rise Of The Fembots
Did you spot a pop robot in 2010? Along with dominatrixes, jail birds and subversive 50s housew...
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A Decade In Music: The Rise And Rise Of The Cover Version
If the Noughties really was the decade where pop railed against its history – the first decade ...
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Behead The Traitor Doherty! Notions Of Britishness In The Music Of The 00s
Let what happens in Denver stay in Denver. For it was in that nondescript mid-West Americ...
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Lily Allen's Trainers, Lady Gaga's Willy & Notions Of Gender In The 00s
"Never retreat, never explain, never apologise; just get the thing done and let them howl." Nel...
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A Look Back At The 00s: 'Glo-fi' And The Sadness Of The Advertised Man
Forewarning: The words ‘I’ and ‘my’ appear frequently in this article. You can either take that...
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A Look Back At The 00s: The Death Of Music Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Have you heard the death knells chiming, pop fans? Recently, three respected voices in music ea...
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A Decade In Music: Myths Of The Digital, Post-Napster Age
It was a decade ago, in the summer of 1999, that the first significant peer-to-peer file sharin...
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A Decade In Review: David Stubbs Asks Whatever Happened To Pop?
What happened to pop? What's become of it? Its story in the 2000s was, on the one hand, the sto...
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